Svn hook encoding problem

Question

Hey!

I created a svn hook that calls a php script to send some emails. The problem is that I am getting incorrect encoded msg's (I think that's what you can call it)

This is what I get in my mail:

Modified files - /base/view.php

Mais umas actualiza?\195?\167?\195?\181es

This is what I get when the hook calls the script. But if I call the script directly (specifying the revision) I get this:

Modified files - /base/view.php

Mais umas actualizações

The mail is sent with iso-8859-1 encoding (tried utf-8 and got the same results)

Anyone know what I can use/do to correct this?
Thanks

Answer 1

It probably has to do with the locale of the executing environment. When you run it yourself it's in your locale, and probably handles the special characters correctly.

I suspect the hook gets executed in the subversion servers locale, which may be the 'C' locale or some locale that doesn't know how to handle those characters.

Answer 2

You need to export the LANG in the post-commit hook, otherwise svnlook will output de log in the locale that is set for your SVN user :

(in post-commit, before the call to your script)

export LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"

Of course, you might adjust to the locale you need, as long as it's utf8.